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Here are some photos from 12th’s latest camp at Great Tower: Our explorers taking on Jacob’s ladder. Our explorers channelling their inner Robin Hood. Ben very helpfully “supervising” the bridge building activity. We were lucky enough to have 4 different scout groups joining in with one big game of football. Kirsty and Jamie prepared for…
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Look at the quality of these dishes made by our explorers!! The explorer leader provided some randomised, key ingredients to the young people. Their task was simple: all they had to do was prepare and cook a dish with the ingredients that they were given! Look at some of the stuff that they prepared. One…
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We had a fantastic time at Dilston this weekend. Here are some photographs: The cubs took part in a blindfolded trail, made pancakes, cooked on a fire, made their own fires with flint and steel, walked to Corbridge, played Cricket and archery. The scouts made pancakes, had a water fight, played some wide games and…
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We had a whale of a time at the winter activity camp at Hawkhirst this year, with the cubs, scouts and explorers all taking part in a range of different activities, such as abseiling, zipwire, low ropes and the crate stack. We also went for a night hike with the cubs and scouts, and went…
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We took part in the district badge day this year – it was all about science! There were volcanic eruptions, digestive system simulations, determining the pH of different materials, working out the density of gases, chromatography and sling-shot making! This picture shows the chromatography experiment taking place. We finished off the event with a big…
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This year’s operation sanctuary, organised by Durham Scouts took place in the South East of County Durham – the location of Sanctuary being in Wheatley Hill scout hut. Operation Sanctuary works like this: the teams are taken to the sanctuary location, and then transported by minibus or coach to the starting location. Nobody, except the…
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We have had a fantastic time on Group Camp this weekend at Dilston in Northumberland. Friday may have been a bit of a washout (The Explorers found out that when a tent leaks you don’t really want to sleep in it), but we didn’t let that spoil anything. From firelighting, to string trails, to walks…
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Leroy the Lion! We’d like to introduce you all to our official spokeslion, Leroy. He will be responsible for keeping our facebook page up to date with all the latest information, gossip and how our events have gone. Look out for him at camp and on a Friday night at our section meetings.
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We’re now way past what we call the “beginning of the digital era” so it’s about time we updated our website and turn it into something that’s a bit more appealing to the eye and something which contains a bunch of useful information and links! Including posts about what we’re getting up to in scouts,…
